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Smooth-file.

1. A finishing-file, whose teeth are of a grade of coarseness between the second-cut and the dead-smooth. See rough-file.

The number of teeth to the inch is according to the length of the file in inches.

Inches468121620
Cuts1128372726456

The angle of the chisel in cutting is about 5° from the perpendicular.

2. The rubbing-tool used by the needle-maker in pressing and rolling a pack of wires, cut for needles, to take out of them the bend they have acquired by the coiling of the wire. See needle.

Smoothing-iron with shield.

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